Rebirth
"What I said is true!" Yu Xiaowei was turned away. "You are being irresponsible! I will sue you! I will appeal and I will find a lawyer..."
"It's no use making a scene here, auntie. You might even be convicted of obstructing the police." Zheng Tong's boyfriend Peng Yue also accompanied her.
Yu Xiaowei turned around and saw his impatient look. She was furious and kicked him, "Do you have any conscience? Tongtong was so good to you, and you used this to fool her. Now she is dying with regrets, and you are responsible for it!"
Peng Yue felt pain and took a few steps back. "Okay, okay, okay, just shout slowly. It's better to go inside and shout. You'll be kicked out anyway."
The car drove back to the city bureau, and a rescuer got out. Yu Xiaowei trotted forward, "Officer Chen!"
Chen An was shocked. He didn't expect that the girl was still insisting.
"It's me, I'm Yu Xiaowei!"
She was so excited that she stood outside the city bureau's entrance, exposed to the scorching sun without an umbrella. Her cheeks flushed and her head was covered in sweat. Chen An tried to calm her down, but Yu Xiaowei begged him to take her inside. Seeing her persistence, Chen An took her in. Unfortunately, upon entering, they ran into Xiong Wei, the captain of the second team and the person in charge of the Zheng Tong case.
He had just come out of the conference room. He was tall and strong, and standing in front of Yu Xiaowei, he had a kind of intimidating aura like a mountain pressing down on his head.
His grey-chest eyes fell directly on Yu Xiaowei. He put down the materials in his hand and said in a slightly displeased tone, "You again?"
Yu Xiaowei swallowed twice, "Officer, what I said is true. You must keep a close eye on Anna. This woman is definitely not simple. Zheng Tong's accident must be related to her..."
Xiong Wei had heard this sentence countless times. Every time, he thought Yu Xiaowei was going to provide some useful clues, but every time she kept repeating the same few words over and over again, as if she would not give up until Anna was caught.
"Please leave the Municipal Bureau now." Xiong Wei walked past her and looked up to find that Chen An had not left yet. Their eyes met and he nodded symbolically to Chen An.
After he left, Chen An looked at the frustrated Yu Xiaowei and said helplessly, "If you really want to help Zheng Tong, you have to tell the truth, word for word."
Yu Xiaowei raised her red eyes, seeming to be very conflicted.
Chen An didn't intend to care at all. He poured her a glass of water and said, "If there's nothing else, you can leave."
Yu Xiaowei stopped him and asked, "If I tell you, can you handle this case?"
She was taken to Chen An's office, the door was closed and the curtain was drawn so that no one outside could hear what they were talking about.
Yu Xiaowei put the paper cup on the table and finally compromised, "Zheng Tong is not a child of the Zheng family."
Memories are always long and distant. She has met many people in the past twenty-three years, and somewhere in a snowy place, she found that skinny child.
The two first met when the neighbors finally found their child.
A severe frost has struck, marking the arrival of winter. A small figure, standing in the snow, clutches an unfinished snowman, while watching another child descend from an expensive Rolls-Royce.
Compared to her rosy complexion, her face was unnaturally pale.
After a while, the woman and the man held the child in their arms with smiles on their faces, and asked her with great concern whether she was cold or hungry.
She just watched the girl walk into the house. The door behind her suddenly opened. She raised her little face and asked her mother, who is that?
Her mother told her that it was Aunt Zheng's daughter.
"At that time, many children were missing from the Fanchunyuan area. There were rumors that there were child traffickers who specialized in kidnapping children. Aunt Zheng's child was lost at that time. He was just over two years old when he went missing. I heard that he was lost when the nanny took him out. After that, crying sounds were often heard from the Zheng family, which scared the people in the community. Everyone said that Aunt Zheng had gone crazy because she couldn't find her child. She usually walked around the Zheng family on her way home."
"I ran into her downstairs in the residential complex a few times. She would always stop me and ask if I had seen her child. Sometimes she would even mistake me for her child. Her crazy look was very pitiful."
Yu Xiaowei was only five or six years old at that time, but the helpless look of the woman always remained in her mind.
"Everyone thought her child would never come back, but one cold winter they found Zheng Tong."
"After Zheng Tong came back, Aunt Zheng's condition gradually improved. Later..." Yu Xiaowei choked up, "After my mother passed away, Aunt Zheng probably felt a pang of sadness, so she took care of me on my mother's behalf. Zheng Tong and I became good friends."
Chen An asked, "You just said Zheng Tong is not their child?"
"I studied nursing in college. Aunt Zheng and her colleagues often came to the hospital where I was interning for checkups. I've read their reports. Both Aunt Zheng and Uncle Zheng have type O blood, but Zheng Tong has type A."
Theoretically, two people with type O blood cannot give birth to children with type A, type B, or type AB blood. It seems that Zheng Tong's identity is indeed in direct doubt.
"Then why are you holding on to Anna?"
Yu Xiaowei was silent, lowered her head, and looked undecided.
Chen An pressed the issue, "What's the problem between Zheng Tong and Anna? Has she ever hurt Anna? Or has Anna ever hurt her?"
The person opposite chose to remain silent. Chen An lost her patience and moved her chair. She also looked up and finally said with almost all her might, "Anna is Aunt Zheng's daughter!"
Municipal Hospital
She walked through the lobby on the first floor holding a bouquet of lilies. After entering the elevator, she lowered the brim of her hat with her right hand. The elevator stopped on the eighth floor. Before she got close, crying sounds came from the ward.
The woman lay on the bed, her bright eyes almost blinded by tears, her mouth whimpering in pain, and her husband beside her holding her hand tightly, trying to make her accept this reality.
They are Zheng Tong's parents.
"I finally found her... Oh my God!" The woman's hands kept pounding the bed sheet. "You're teasing me! My daughter! How could this happen? I clearly called her at noon, and in the blink of an eye, she was taken away from me again!"
She was very upset and had been crying non-stop for the past few days. She must have woken up and started crying again. Her cries attracted the nurse on duty outside. When the nurse came in, her husband took off his glasses and awkwardly wiped the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand.
"Tell her not to get too excited and to control her emotions," the nurse advised.
The husband nodded, still holding his wife's hand tightly. They had experienced the pain of losing their daughter twice, both times were unforgettable and both times they were heartbroken.
The eighth floor was the VIP ward, and the corridors weren't as busy as those in the regular wards. Anna stood in a blind spot, waiting for the nurse to leave before daring to move closer. Her sobs faded, and the woman slumped over her husband's shoulder, heartbroken.
She squeezed the bouquet tightly, and the paper wrapping the lilies wrinkled. After a few seconds, she turned and left as if she had never been there.
"You said there are still doubts in this case?"
Shen Changqing was about to sign Xiong Wei's case closing report when Chen An suddenly broke in and interrupted the bell ringing.
He listened to Chen An repeating the information Anna had given him word for word, and Xiong Wei's face turned ugly.
"So I think there are still doubts in Zheng Tong's case."
Xiong Wei leaned slightly to the side and glanced at the man who was also standing tall, with an unclear meaning: "Captain Chen seems to be very interested in our case?"
Chen An, unfazed, looked back, "I was just relaying Yu Xiaowei's words." He turned his gaze back to the deputy director, "Director Chen, Anna and Zheng Tong had this relationship. It would be hasty to label Zheng Tong's death an accident now. Please reconsider."
This case happened a few days ago. After multiple investigations, Xiong Wei did not find any signs of murder. Chen An suddenly proposed to continue the investigation. He was unwilling to waste time on such a case. For a while, the situation was a little awkward.
Xiong Wei said, "Director Chen, how about this: Team One and the Serious Crime Squad investigate together and give them three more days. After three days, both teams will submit their case reports."
Shen Changqing looked at him, caught the smile in his eyes, and then looked at Chen An's calm expression, his curiosity was also aroused. He covered the pen tip, pushed the report back, and responded: "Okay, three days, submit the report in three days."
Xiong Wei achieved his goal and turned back with a rather proud look, "Based on Captain Chen's understanding of this case, we should be able to handle it in three days."
Unfortunately, the other party did not accept his provocation, but just took the task and returned to the group.
The team members who had been feeling sleepy due to having nothing to do immediately perked up after his appearance. Cheng Xiaoxiang, the deputy team leader, asked energetically, "What are the instructions, Boss?"
Chen An pushed him down on the chair and faced the crowd. "We have to handle Zheng Tong's case as well. Three days." He gestured with a number. "Director Shen only gave us three days to thoroughly investigate the matter and submit a case report."
"Huh?!" Cheng Xiaoxiang was the first to drop his jaw in shock. "Three days? That's too rushed! And this case..."
Chen An raised his eyelids, took a quick look, and stopped him from saying anything else.
"This case is indeed handled by a team, but..." Chen An's mouth curled up, and he leaned back in the nearest workstation. "I was worried that you wouldn't get any experience, so I specially sought this opportunity."
"ah?!"
There was grief everywhere.
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